Building the Normalisation Panorama, 1968-69
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98271-3_2" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-98271-3_2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Building the Normalisation Panorama, 1968-69
Original language description
Though Alexander Dubček spoke of the need for 'normalisation' upon returning from his forced visit to Moscow in August 1968, the term took on new meaning after the April 1969 plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, when Gustáv Husák replaced Dubček as the Party's First Secretary. This chapter explores how the normalisation 'panorama', which Václav Havel would analyse in The Power of the Powerless and which would dominate Czechoslovakia's socioepistemological landscape until 1989, was established between August 1968, in the aftermath of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, to November 1969, by which time the panorama's edifice was largely constructed. The chapter reconstructs the evolution of political practices and mentalities among citizens and officials at the grassroots level, drawing on evidence from the district of Nymburk in central Bohemia. It identifies six phases in the process by which a critical mass of citizens came gradually, compromise after compromise, to deny the support they had expressed in 1968 for the Prague Spring's reform programme and instead to profess love for the Soviet invaders and loyalty to Husák's regime. The chapter documents, in other words, a process of 'auto-normalisation'-by which individuals rejected a social contract they had started to co-author in favour of one dictated to them.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation, 1969-1989
ISBN
978-3-030-98270-6
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
27-51
Number of pages of the book
345
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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